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Warner Bros UK has looked overseas to find new heads of A&R, as its sister operation Atlantic promotes within to fill the position of A&R director.
Warner Bros managing director Korda Marshall has appointed as joint heads of A&R the husband and wife team of James Dowdall and Rose Noone, who relocated to the US in the Nineties, having met while working at Island Records during the previous decade.
At the same time, Marshall's opposite number at Atlantic, Max Lousada, has elevated Hugo Bedford to a newly-created director of A&R position having previously been A&R manager.
It has been five years since Dowdall and Noone last worked together and Marshall says he is looking to build a roster to match that of Warner Bros US. "Heading up our A&R team, they will be a force to be reckoned with," he says.
At Island in the UK, Dowdall signed Nine Inch Nails. ...